Shep Smith Issues Doomsday Warning About Hurricane Matthew

As Hurricane Matthew was preparing to come ashore in Florida, Fox News anchor Shepherd Smith gave an intense and frightening warning Thursday night while outlining the perils of ignoring warnings to flee from the path of the devastating storm.

Smith, who formerly worked at a Miami TV station before joining Fox, was pointing to a map showing the projected path of the storm when he began to tell residents the importance of moving to safer ground.

“This moves 20 miles to the west, and you and everyone you know are dead. All of you. Because you can’t survive it. It’s not possible unless you’re very, very lucky. And your kids die, too,” he said.

Faced with many Florida residents ignoring evacuation orders, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has tried to impress a sense of urgency upon his state.

“This storm will kill you,” Scott said Thursday morning. If “you’re in an evacuation area, get out. Don’t take a chance.”

“Do not surf. Do not go to the beach. This will kill you,” he added.

“My biggest concern is people aren’t taking this seriously enough,” he said later. “I don’t want people to lose their life.”

Hurricane Matthew moved ashore overnight. One person is already dead in Florida due to the storm with more than half a million people without power. Hundreds have already been killed in the path of the storm in Haiti and thousands of others were evacuated from Cuba.